Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Democrats told Republicans that for Thanksgiving they can eat crow
The Big Guy has plenty to spend, courtesy of Hunter.
Since he spent hundreds of millions on his re-election Pritzker should open his hotels and feed the entire state of Illinois.
Not if he’s first in line.